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  • Polish TSO: Bałtyk I Could Go Full Tilt

    31 January 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Polish grid operator Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) has specified the connection conditions for the Bałtyk I offshore wind farm, which would allow the project to be built to its full capacity of 1,560MW. Bałtyk I is being jointly developed by Polenergia and Equinor, who acquired a 50% stake in the project last year, after having signed the agreement to […]

  • Eneco Picks EWPL Ocean for Blade Inspections

    29 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Dutch sustainable energy provider Eneco has awarded EWPL Ocean with a full scope contract for offshore turbine blade inspections and damage assessment. The parties have not disclosed any further details regarding the contract value and the duration of the works. Eneco is the owner of two offshore wind projects located in the Dutch North Sea – […]

  • Energinet Picks Survey Team for Danish 800MW OWF

    15 August 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Energinet has contracted MMT Sweden AB to carry out site investigations at an offshore wind project in Denmark. MMT is in charge of carrying out a seabed survey at the site of the 800MW offshore wind farm and its export cable route in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, respectively. A geophysical survey will be performed at […]

  • VOS Stone Keeping Busy at Hohe See

    12 September 2019
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Vroon’s walk-to-work (W2W) vessel VOS Stone is currently operating in the Hohe See wind farm in the German North Sea. Supporting Siemens Gamesa, VOS Stone is on duty 24/7, deploying service teams to the wind turbines, Vroon said. These operations are carried out via a gangway or by a crew transfer vessel. In addition to […]

  • Northwester 2 Substation Touches Down

    11 September 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The 962t Northwester 2 offshore high voltage substation has been installed at the project site off the Belgian coast. According to Parkwind, Scaldis’ crane vessel Gulliver installed the topside onto its monopile foundation yesterday morning at the site some 50km off the coast. The offshore substation will be connected to Elia’s Offshore SwitchYard (OSY) platform, […]

  • Poland’s Full Offshore Wind Potential Still Unknown

    28 September 2018
    R&D

    Poland has the highest unidentified offshore wind potential in the Baltic Sea, Janusz Gajowiecki, President of the Polish Wind Energy Association (PWEA) said during a session at the Global Wind Summit in Hamburg.

  • China’s Goldwind Unveils 8MW Offshore Turbine Model

    16 November 2018
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Chinese wind turbine maker Goldwind has launched three newly-developed smart offshore wind turbines including a model with a capacity of 8MW, and a model with the largest rotor diameter in the world.

  • Ørsted Makes Room For Future German Offshore Wind Projects

    21 June 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted has opened a new facility in Norddeich, Germany, which will be used for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 project, currently under construction, as well as the developer’s future projects in the German North Sea.

  • HST Harri Shows Its Contours

    30 May 2019
    Vessels

    High Speed Transfers’ (HST) newest fast crew supply vessel HST Harri is taking shape at Damen Shipyards Antalya in Turkey. HST Harri represents the third fast crew supply vessel that HST ordered with Damen under a contract signed at the beginning of this year. The vessel, which belongs to the FCS 2710 class Damen unveiled in May last year, is […]

  • Borssele Alpha Topside On the Move

    30 April 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    HSM Offshore has loaded out the Borssele Alpha substation topside onto a barge at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands. The 700MW Borssele Alpha will collect the electricity generated by Ørsted’s Borssele 1 + 2 offshore wind farm and feed it into the Dutch grid. The substation’s jacket foundation was installed in August 2018. The platform […]

  • Windfarm Update: Belwind & Northwind

    17 November 2014

    In October Japanese industrial group Sumitomo Corporation announced it has officially acquired shares in the two Belgian wind farms Belwind (39%) and Northwind (30%) from Parkwind NV, a joint venture by Colruyt Group, Korys, the investment holding of the Colruyt family, and the Flemish investment fund PMV. The 165MW Belwind project is located on the […]

  • UD Researcher to Talk Wind Energy

    24 February 2015

    The University of Delaware (UD) is to hold the first Green Liaisons sustainability lecture of the spring tomorrow from 1p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Ewing Room. The lecture will feature UD researcher Jeremy Firestone, who will speak about the wind turbine located on the University’s Lewes campus. As a faculty member in the School […]

  • Ampelmann Equips Acta Marine’s WFSV

    15 May 2015
    Vessels

    Ampelmann, a provider of motion compensated access solutions, has been contracted by Acta Marine for its newbuild wind farm support vessel, the Acta Orion. The Acta Orion is a vessel designed for optimal crew comfort and increased uptime. An important factor in the vessel’s capabilities is the inclusion of Ampelmann’s motion compensated gangway. The Ampelmann gangway […]

  • SgurrEnergy Company of the Year at British Renewable Energy Awards

    19 June 2015

    SgurrEnergy has won the top award category at British Renewable Energy Awards (BREA). At the packed black tie dinner, hosted by the Renewable Energy Association at the Savoy Hotel, London, the SgurrEnergy team was awarded ‘Company of the Year’. The accolade recognised the efforts of the business, which has successfully driven the advancement of renewable energy […]

  • Kentish Flats Extension Turbines Hit the Road

    17 June 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Construction at Kentish Flats Extension offshore wind farm is well underway. The first batch of towers, blades and nacelles was loaded onto Neptune at MHI Vestas factory this weekend and began their journey on Monday, said Vattenfall. The vessel is due to arrive on site today with the commencement of installation shortly after. An individual […]

  • USA: HiDef to Conduct Aerial Surveys for State of Maryland

    18 March 2013
    Environment

    HiDef announced that it has secured a 12 month contract to conduct aerial surveys for the State of Maryland with their bespoke super HD digital video technology. The project will see HiDef analyze sea bird and sea mammal species in state waters for proposed offshore wind projects. Maryland has proven to be a front runner […]

  • DONG Energy to Develop Another OWF Project in Germany

    22 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has acquired project rights for OWP West offshore wind farm from Erste Nordsee-Offshore-Holding GmbH, a company owned by STRABAG and Northern Energy Projects. Information about the acquisition first appeared in late December 2015, after DONG Energy took over the project on 16 December, 2015, according to STRABAG OW EVS website. DONG Energy today confirmed to Offshore WIND that it had acquired […]

  • China’s Oil Major Taps Into Offshore Wind

    25 January 2019
    Business & Finance

    China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) Ltd has entered the offshore wind sector with recent involvement in a project offshore East China’s Jiangsu province. The Chinese company unveiled it entered the project this month, however, details on the size or scope of the development have not been disclosed. Offshore wind aligns with CNOOC’s business due to […]

  • Sif Picks euskalforging Flanges for Hohe See Foundations

    24 March 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Spain-based seamless rolled rings manufacturer euskalforging has signed a contract with the Dutch Sif Group to supply 71 flanges for the foundations to be installed on EnBW’s 497MW Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Dong to Lift Restriction around Anholt Area (Denmark)

    3 October 2013
    Environment, Wind Farm Update

    Throughout the construction period, the work area around Anholt has been classified as a restricted area where there has been a ban on fishing, sailing, anchoring, diving and working on the seabed that was not related to the construction work. The restricted area was created to increase navigation safety in the area, but now that […]

  • Taiwan Floats Plan to Add 10GW More Offshore Wind by 2035

    12 November 2019
    Authorities

    Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to set a goal of developing further 10GW of offshore wind capacity between 2026 and 2035. During the inauguration of the Formosa 1, Taiwan’s first commercial offshore wind farm, the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs to propose the plan which would see 1GW […]

  • Offshore Marine Named Broker for Severn Provider

    9 December 2014
    Vessels

    Severn Offshore Services appoints Offshore Marine Chartering to act as broker for their new build Offshore Energy Service Vessel ‘Severn Provider’. The ‘Severn Provider’ will be exclusively available through Offshore Marine Chartering and the partnership follows an initial meeting between the two companies, which took place in Cardiff earlier this year. The first of Severn […]

  • Japan Approves New Offshore Wind Bill

    30 November 2018
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment

    A bill promoting the commercial use of offshore wind in Japanese waters has passed both houses of Japan’s National Diet.

  • E.ON Backs Down from Pelamis Wave Energy Project (UK)

    3 July 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    E.ON is withdrawing from Pelamis Wave Power’s wave energy project in Orkney and has decided to focus on wind, biomass and solar energy instead of marine renewables. Triggered by rather slow progress of wave technology, the company said that more mature technologies in renewable energy will be the focal point of its business. However, E.ON […]

  • NSW to Supply Cable for Kentish Flats Extension

    15 January 2014
    Grid Connection

    On December 12, 2013, Vattenfall Wind Power Ltd has awarded a contract for the supply of 30 km MVAC array subsea cables for the Kentish Flats Extension to NSW GmbH, a subsidiary of General Cable Corp. The start of production is scheduled for 2014, the commissioning of the extension of the wind farm for 2015. […]

  • Vos Prodect Joins Trianel Windpark Borkum II Array Cable Team

    1 November 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) has contracted Vos Prodect Innovations BV to design and deliver inter-array cable hang-off systems for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II (TWB II) offshore wind project in the German North Sea.